Health practice and management
Health-care providers and health-care services play an important part in the return to work (RTW) of injured workers and in disability management processes at workers’ compensation boards in Canada. IWH research supports front-line health-care practitioners—including primary care physicians and allied health-care professionals, who support or treat workers with injuries and illnesses that affect their ability to work.
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Primary care physicians’ learning needs in returning ill or injured workers to work
While primary care physicians play an important role in helping ill and injured workers return to work (RTW), they have a variety of learning needs about how to best navigate the RTW process. These needs fall in the areas of completing administrative tasks, challenging personal beliefs, understandin
Published: July 26, 2023
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Clinical tools to assess functional capacity during risk assessment before elective noncardiac surgery : a scoping review
Published: Annals of Internal Medicine, November 2024
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ECHO OEM virtual community of learning for primary care
Published: Occupational Medicine, September 2024
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Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024
Published: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, July 2024
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Defining domains: developing consensus-based definitions for foundational domains in OMERACT core outcome sets
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, June 2024
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Patient research partner engagement in OMERACT: enhancing engagement through the implementation of patient engagement in research tools
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, May 2024
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Assessing domain match and feasibility of candidate instruments matching with OMERACT endorsed domains to measure flare in knee and hip osteoarthritis
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, April 2024
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OMERACT Core outcome measurement set for shared decision making in rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions: a scoping review to identify candidate instruments
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, April 2024
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Increasing uptake through collaboration in the development of core outcome sets: lessons learned at OMERACT 2023
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, March 2024
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Core outcome set developers should consider and specify the level of granularity of outcome domains
Published: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, February 2024
Research Highlights
Primary care physicians’ learning needs in returning ill or injured workers to work
While primary care physicians play an important role in helping ill and injured workers return to work (RTW), they have a variety of learning needs about how to best navigate the RTW process. These needs fall in the areas of completing administrative tasks, challenging personal beliefs, understanding specific RTW issues and learning about available RTW services and tools.
Published: July 2023